Home Daycare Bookkeeping Bundle

For home daycare and family child care providers in the US. Your house is also your business, so the IRS asks for a few extra records: the Time-Space % for Form 8829, which expenses were for the daycare, what each family paid, and the meals you served. These four spreadsheets keep those records and do the arithmetic.

What is inside

• Time-Space Calculator: your business-use % for Form 8829 with the IRS Publication 587 daycare method, and the simplified method next to it.
• Expense Tracker: one row per receipt, marked daycare only, shared or personal, with totals grouped by the usual Schedule C and Form 8829 lines.
• Tuition Tracker: payments by family and month, and a year-end statement for each family with the provider details they need for the child care credit (Form 2441) or a dependent care FSA.
• Attendance and Meal Log: arrivals, departures and meals per child, with an estimate at the IRS standard meal allowance.
• A sample copy and a blank copy of each, plus a one-page Start Here guide.

Time-Space % for Form 8829

Expenses by use and form line

Year-end statement for parents

Meals and allowance by month

Record-keeping tool, not tax advice. Check the form lines against the current year's forms and confirm with a tax professional before filing. Sample numbers are examples.

The bundle

$19

One payment, instant download of all four workbooks. Checkout is handled by Polar, our merchant of record. If it does not work for you, write within 14 days and we will refund it.

Try the free Time-Space calculator first, or read a worked Time-Space example and how the meal allowance works.

How to use: in Google Sheets choose File, Import, Upload and pick the .xlsx file, or open it in Excel. Cream cells are for typing; green cells calculate.